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Latest News from Alan WilliamsonenCopyright 2018 Ulitzer.com Ulitzer.comMon, 19 Mar 2018 08:44:26 EDThttp://backend.userland.com/rss360Amazon EC2 Latency: The Pretty Graphshttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1245464
Following on from my previous post, cloudkick, has published their network latency findings within Amazon's EC2 clearly showing a major problem brewing within at least one of their data centers<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1245464" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:03:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1245464http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1245464#feedbackHas Amazon EC2 become over subscribed?http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1245148
Amazon EC2 is increasingly under load, but when you start to see internal pings around 7seconds with regularly shell freezes this is more than a freak one off incidents. Amazon appear to be struggling with the load<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1245148" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:52:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1245148http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1245148#feedbackDynamic Datasource Manipulation for OpenBDhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1233519
Using dynamic datasources just got a whole lot easier with OpenBD by the introduction of 3 new functions to help creating dynamic datasources infinitely easier<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1233519" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:20:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1233519http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1233519#feedbackAmazon finally delivers on the data-loss on power-down problemhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1208564
Amazon announces full EBS bootable images - this means no more data loss when your instance goes offline irrespective of where you have stored your data on the file system. Faster boot times and a new geographic location announced<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1208564" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:35:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1208564http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1208564#feedbackAmazon Takes MySQL to the Cloud; or Has It?http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1159789
Amazon have released a slew of new features and products for their cloud. But as usual, the devil is in the detail. I go into some of the issues and discover that this may not be for everyone<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1159789" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1159789http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1159789#feedbackEngadget Claims "Biggest Disasters in the History of Cloud Computing"http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1139921
Engadget trips up in its own importance and falls into the trap that many bloggers/journalists are finding: not everything that runs in a browser is cloud computing. One server fault does not mark the end of cloud computing. Perspective<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1139921" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:47:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1139921http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1139921#feedbackAmazon Makes Sharing Data Easier with Shared EBShttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1119020
Amazon releases the ability to share EBS snapshots so others can utilize and consume your data, irrespective of format. But EBS is more than just persisted data. It is a whole mechanism to allow for quickly taking snapshots of your data partition and then mounting that partition elsewhere. Take for example, having your database running on an EBS partition. You can snapshot that partition and mount that new clone on another machine. Quick and easy.
Amazon were quick to exploit this feature and offer publicly blessed pre-configured datasets. For example, ever fancied having the WikiPedia dataset available to your application? Or maybe you would prefer to have all the US Addresses mapping information?<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1119020" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:00:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1119020http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1119020#feedbackAmazon SimpleDB + SQS: Simple Java POJO Accesshttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1095803
Amazon SimpleDB - SQS web services are within easy reach of any Java developer with these 2 non-dependent class files. No fuss, no nonsense, just code that works.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1095803" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:30:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1095803http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1095803#feedbackA Simple Java Class for Amazon SimpleSQShttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1087658
A very simple POJO Java class for accessing all of the features of Amazon's SQS web service.
Full API support. No dependencies. Just use it.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1087658" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:30:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1087658http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1087658#feedbackNew Buzzwords for Businesshttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1087408
Business Computing and buzzwords, go together like cheese and wine.
Geek'n'Poke takes aim and finds the bullspot once again with their latest cloud related<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1087408" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:30:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1087408http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1087408#feedbackOnce Again, Amazon Moves the Cloud World Forwardhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1083281
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is announced in limited beta. Lots of interesting features and once again, they have moved the cloud world forward<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1083281" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:30:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1083281http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1083281#feedbackScaling Java From the Enterprise To the Cloudhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1040741
Simple scalability - that's the Terracotta value proposition. In this Quick Q&A with SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal editor-in-chief Alan Williamson, Geert Bevin - Evangelist at Terracotta Inc - explains that how Terracotta helps enable Java in the Cloud...and clarifies the difference between the commercial and OSS editions of Terracotta.
<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1040741" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:15:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1040741http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1040741#feedbackA Simple Java class for Amazon SimpleDBhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1031841
A very simple POJO Java class for accessing all of the features of Amazon's SimpleDB web service. Support for all new methods including select, and batchputattributes. No dependencies. Just use it<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1031841" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:09:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1031841http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1031841#feedbackRackspace wobbles but cloud remainshttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1028984
Hosting and Cloud provider Rackspace suffers an outage causing many people not able to reach their network<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1028984" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:23:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1028984http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1028984#feedbackGoogle App Engine suffers 6hr outagehttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1024891
With Google App Engine going offline it is important to realize that even the big boys have problems. However, can your business tolerate such down times? Can you really bet your business on the cloud? Or is it too early<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1024891" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:07:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1024891http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/1024891#feedbackSOA & Cloud Bootcamp: Comparing Cloud Computing Providershttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/983239
If your business relies on the speedy resolution of an issue from your cloud provider, then test them before you try. Send them that email out-of-hours to see how quickly and how useful the reply actually is. Try and reach someone on the phone. Look around the forums to see how many questions are left unanswered.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/983239" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:45:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/983239http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/983239#feedbackSOA & Cloud Bootcamp: Who Ya Gonna Call? Cloudbusters!http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875917
As the theme tune to the classic 1984 Ghostbusters movie goes, "If there's something strange, in your neighborhood, Who ya gonna call?", I am left wondering what we'll all be singing (shouting?) when something goes wrong in our cloud world. When you've got your whole business in the cloud and there is an outage, just what happens to your bottom line? What happens to your customers? What do you do? <p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875917" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:00:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875917http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875917#feedbackServer Sales Drop 25% - Cloud Computing making an impact?http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/982997
Global server sales have dropped 25% across the board. This is the worse drop-off for over 12 years. What is to blame<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/982997" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:58:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/982997http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/982997#feedbackHow many servers does it take to make a cloud?http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/979908
We love this new virtual world of ondemand computing, but have you wondered just how many servers Amazon, Google, Microsoft or any of the cloud providers really have at their disposal<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/979908" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Thu, 28 May 2009 03:35:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/979908http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/979908#feedbackPrague Cloud Computing Expo - core dumphttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/978480
Cloud Expo Europe was last week at Prague, and a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining cloud conference was had. Met lots of great people and spoke at length regarding peoples concerns about moving to the cloud<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/978480" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Wed, 27 May 2009 05:05:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/978480http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/978480#feedbackCloud Boot Camp heads to Prague May 19thhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/959945
Preparing to take our Cloud Boot Camp Road Show to<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/959945" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 12 May 2009 07:21:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/959945http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/959945#feedbackProfiling Netbeans within Amazon EC2http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/713776
It was only a matter of time before we started seeing real how-to's pop up on how we can start profiling our Java applications running deep within the cloud. When my long term friend and colleague, Kirk Pepperdine, started talking about taking his world class Java performance tuning skills out of the server room and into the clouds I was excited. He's just getting started, with this handy start-up for getting your live clouded Java applications directly profiled using Netbeans.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/713776" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:30:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/713776http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/713776#feedbackClosing Timehttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/916473
Another couple of conferences close their doors as we move forward into 2009<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/916473" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:51:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/916473http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/916473#feedbackCloud Boot Camp Post Noteshttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/903907
Cloud boot camp was a resounding success at Cloud Computing Expo in New York<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/903907" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:47:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/903907http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/903907#feedbackSing-a-long to Cloud Computinghttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/895063
Come on now, lets all sing-a-long to the cloud computing song, a parody of Joni Mitchell<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/895063" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:38:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/895063http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/895063#feedbackNew York's Cloud Boot Camp Final Schedulehttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/894104
The final schedule for next weeks Cloud Computing Expo boot camp has been finalised. Looking forward to next week<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/894104" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:34:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/894104http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/894104#feedbackClouds make your life easier, honest!http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/890885
Geek and Poke blog has a wonderful cartoon depicting the complexities of the world of clouds<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/890885" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:24:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/890885http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/890885#feedbackCloudBerry Explorer - a very polished S3 utilityhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/889177
If you are looking for a familiar interface for moving files up and down to Amazon S3 then you'll be hard pushed to find something as slick for the price<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/889177" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:01:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/889177http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/889177#feedbackBeware of the Cloud Taxhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/887451
If you haven't seen the cloud tax yet, then don't worry, it happens to everyone, and creeps up on you without warning<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/887451" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:14:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/887451http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/887451#feedbackCloud Computing Expo Early bird discounthttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/886434
Today is the last day to register for a sweet, early bird, deal on the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo in a couple of weeks in New York. We've got some wonderful keynotes delivered at the highest levels from Amazon, IBM and Sun<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/886434" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:39:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/886434http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/886434#feedbackPart 1 of my java.sun.com interviewhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/886433
I was recently interviewed for java.sun.com on the wonders of cloud computing and<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/886433" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:16:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/886433http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/886433#feedbackDeveloping in the cloud without fallinghttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/883058
Developing applications for the cloud is not as trivial as you may think, but nor is it as a hard as some make out. Be mindful of what can and can't done. Looking at 3 major areas, which will be covered in detail at our upcoming cloud boot<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/883058" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:06:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/883058http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/883058#feedbackWindows Azure suffers first major outagehttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/879766
Microsoft flight into the clouds took a nose dive for 22 hours this week as it suffered an outage<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/879766" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:20:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/879766http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/879766#feedbackWho do you trust with your cloud credituals?http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/879765
Who can you really trust with your cloud keys? Many services ask for your Amazon details so they may deliver you a value added service. But how do you know they won't be naughty! In short you can't<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/879765" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:28:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/879765http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/879765#feedbackGet 4 free months of Amazon EC2 24x7 hostinghttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/876113
Amazon have released their Reserved Instances, which effectively gives you big discounts for instances that are running for long periods of time<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/876113" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:25:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/876113http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/876113#feedbackClouds Do Blow Away - Live With Ithttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/731374
If you were to believe the hype from the media and certain so called industry experts, you would be forgiven for thinking that cloud computing is the second coming. The answer to all our scaling and usage problems. Everything to everyone. The notion that the "cloud" is always on, or up, is a myth that is being propogated, irresponsibly, around the corridors of tech. As they say, what goes up must come down and software is no different.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/731374" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:45:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/731374http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/731374#feedback"Clouds" Is a Place on the Earthhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/724750
As the popular Belinda Carlisle song, Heaven is a place on earth, goes, while we talk about all this virtualised computing power and clouds, somewhere there is a real physical CPU doing real work somewhere on earth. In some data center your cloud application is taking up physical space, using real power, creating an impact somewhere, and flashing an LED in some network panel. We often get ahead of ourselves and talk about the unlimited cloud computing available to us, but in reality everything has limits, and cloud computing is no different.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/724750" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/724750http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/724750#feedbackTime for VMWare to Change Its Pricing Modelhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/617761
The once darling of the software industry, VMWare, is currently struggling to recover to anything close to what it was. With stock once riding high at $124 per share, it is now struggling to break the $40 barrier. VMWare rode the initial wave of the virtualization revolution, producing high quality software to allow you to run and maintain multiple operating systems on one host. They were largely uncompeted for a number of years, but now that the computing world has decided that virtualization is indeed here to stay and will shape our landscape, a number of competitors have appeared, including solutions from Microsoft.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/617761" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:15:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/617761http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/617761#feedbackElastic Bamboo 2.2 utilising Amazon EC2 for faster buildshttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875020
Atlassian has just released their new version of their continuous build integration suite, called Elastic Bamboo. This is a way for you to automatically and scale out your build and testing requirements by using Amazon's EC2 platform<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875020" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:50:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875020http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875020#feedbackFurther consolidation in the VM space as Oracle signs letter of intenthttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875019
Oracle is sniffing around Virtual Iron for a possible purchase to round out its own virtual<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875019" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:39:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875019http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875019#feedbackScotland's first CloudCamp kicks off at the end of Marchhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875018
The very successful evening format of the CloudCamp series, is coming to Scotland - Edinburgh, to be precise, on the 25th of<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875018" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:22:00 EDThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875018http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875018#feedbackExclusive Q&A with Cloud Computing CEO Michael Crandellhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/784020
"We are in an ideal position to accelerate our business to continue our leadership in this rapidly advancing cloud market," says RightScale CEO Michael Crandell, in this Exclusive Q&A with the editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, Alan Williamson. "We decided the timing was right to create a war chest that would take us to profitability," Crandell added. Earlier this month RightScale snagged $13M in a Series B round of venture funding.
<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/784020" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:36:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/784020http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/784020#feedbackBye Bye Command Line; Amazon Releases Its AWS Web Consolehttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/804436
Finally, after years of providing just a command line interface to their web services, Amazon has released a web based management console. Has it been worth the wait? In a nutshell, yes. We knew this day was coming, and 8th of January was that day. Built using Yahoo's YUI framework, using JSP at the backend, Amazon's engineers have delivered a very rich, functional and darn right stunning looking console. It begs you to want to use it.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/804436" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:00:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/804436http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/804436#feedbackAmazon releases their AWS Web Consolehttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875017
Amazon, finally after years of providing just a command line interface to their web services, released a web based management console. Has it been worth the wait? Read the review of their first web based offering<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875017" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:46:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875017http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875017#feedbackGoodbye Macworld, Apple Bites the Hand That Feeds Ithttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/780129
Do not dis the very people that will build and create the community for your product to survive. Can you imagine a Java landscape without its yearly flagship conference JavaOne? Unthinkable, but you can be rest assured that it will be a wonderful benchmark to which to measure Sun's commitment. If Sun ever stops JavaOne, no matter how expensive it becomes, then Java is dead.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/780129" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:33:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/780129http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/780129#feedbackAmazon SimpleDB renamed to Amazon Registryhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875016
Okay, so this is wishful thinking on my part, Amazon taking the initiative and renaming their very powerful SimpleDB product Amazon Registry. Let me present my case for why they should<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875016" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:22:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875016http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875016#feedbackCloud Computing Podcast: featuring me!http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875015
I was honored to be part of the very popular Cloud Computing Podcast by David Linthicum. It has just gone live for your audible enjoyment<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875015" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:27:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875015http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875015#feedbackDeploy OpenBD to the cloud via Elastic Serverhttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875014
With ElasticServer you can now build your own custom server image with OpenBD installed, choosing your own J2EE and database server. Deploy straight to Amazon EC2. Can't get easier<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875014" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:51:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875014http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/875014#feedbackCloud Computing Bootcamp Announces Special Guest Appearancehttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/724774
The biggest problem we have is trying to figure out what to leave out, because we simply have too much to present. Attendees are going to get a real hands-on feel for how they can utilize the world of on-demand computing. It won't be a sit-back-and-listen day, it's a true hands-on, sleeves-rolled up full day. We will be going through all aspects of cloud management, giving you a flavor of many of the different tools and techniques out there so you can decide which one fits in with your way of working, instead of feeling there is only one route to cloud nirvana.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/724774" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/724774http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/724774#feedbackIs Aptana Really a Cloud?http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/743873
The line between what is considered a cloud and what is paramount to hosting is a blurry line at the best of times. What qualifies a companies offering as a cloud based product offering? That is a question that is continually debated in the cloud circles and no one has really yet to offer a real concrete reason. Setting aside all the marketing buzzwords that will get thrown in "scalability" / "on-demand" / "deploy", a cloud offering has to deliver on its hype.<p><a href="http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/743873" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:00:00 ESThttp://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/743873http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/node/743873#feedback